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CGEP Distinguished Visiting Fellow; Former Deputy National Security Advisor for the UK
Jonathan Black served as the UK Prime Minister’s Sherpa for the G7 and G20 and Deputy National Security Adviser from 2019 to 2025. He has 20 years’ experience at the centre of the UK government at the intersection of economic, security and international policy.
As Sherpa, he led the UK’s Presidency of the G7 in 2021 alongside its Presidency of COP26. He played a key role in the UK’s post Brexit trade strategy, including negotiations with the Trump and Biden administrations and with the European Union, and coordinating those with Australia, India, the Gulf and South Korea. As Deputy National Security Adviser, he oversaw the development of the UK’s economic security framework, coordination of the UK’s approach across US, EU and China interests, and the implementation of new powers and policy. He played key role in the G7 coordination of the response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He was the Prime Minister’s Representative for the pioneering UK-hosted AI Safety Summit in 2023 that brought leaders of governments, AI companies and civil society together for the first global AI safety agreements.
Prior to his role as Sherpa, Black served in various other roles in the UK government. He was the UK Director at the European Investment Bank and UK Alternate Director at the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. He was Private Secretary and Press Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer at HM Treasury.
He was Heywood Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford in 2023 where he published “The crossroads of geopolitics: policy making in a more complex and uncertain world”, is an Emeritus Governor of the London School of Economics, and is currently also a Fellow at the Ditchley Foundation.